Can someone help me find the artist or even the original source of this image please? I had a much smaller, cut version of it before and eventually got to this using imgops (yandex, saucenao, iqdb, etc), but I can't find a higher quality version nor the name of the artist.
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Google Images reports that it logged this image on this page.https://buhitter.com/ja/tags/chara%28undertale%29?offset=8790The image it found was archived on 31 May 2021, so the source tweet cannot be older than that.https://web.archive.org/web/20210531152735/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2ueZ2EX0AMnsuD.jpgI've checked up until page 320 on buhitter and failed to spot it. The source may be further down, or I've missed it in a previous page.https://buhitter.com/ja/tags/chara%28undertale%29?offset=9570
>>1457170you see.. that's the issue, there are reposts and reuses of that image dating back to 2017, including a dota 2 arcade game that hasn't been updated since 2019 (i played it back in 2017 and the initial smaller cut version i used to get to the full one was scraped from there).although, while I did search through buhitter, sorting from oldest, up to mid-2018 and didn't find it, or at least missed it, I didn't know the exact date where the google images results returned to, of which you've provided now, so thank you very much! I shall check around that date range, and hope that it's a repost from the original artist, or at least that it leads me to it somehow.Thanks again! please let me know if any further information is found, I shall continue trying to find it and any help is very much appreciated!
>>1457219pardon my troglodyteness, i just realized that you meant the image was *archived* at that time, not exactly posted, just recorded in the wayback machine. This actually narrows it down much more than what I expected at first.Thank you very much!
>>1457170my fears came true. I managed to find the source of the results from buhitter, and it turned out to be a reposthttps://twitter.com/ThendAnli/status/1399386314953404420I double-checked to be sure that it was that exact post, and the pic address matched the archive.org one exactly.I sent a message to the person who reposted in one of their open platforms and they read the message and did not answer.the search continues...
>>1457244If the author's original posts are still around, then it's likely that it will only be found by manually searching and scrolling through archives, boorus, pixiv, tumblr, deviantart, or twitter. Incidentally, were the source to be located on any of those sites, it's highly unlikely that reverse image searching would have helped at all.Assuming they've been lost to the ether, it would be necessary to hand check every single archived tumblr link in the Web Archive and archive.today.Though in any case, if you can manage to find a more precise timestamp for that dota2 arcade game, the search space can be made considerably smaller through the use of date filters. If you report back with results on that timestamp, I can continue to help with the search.
>>1457257Did some research on the changelogs + the game's github page and the exact timestamp for the first upload of the character art was:Feb 18, 2017, 7:10 PM GMTThank you once again for the help!Now, on sadder news. After sorting by oldest and going from the date said of repost (2021) and backwards on buhitter until the very first post of the tag, I was unable to spot the artwork again, meaning the original artist either: a. asked for removal, b. deleted their post/the account, or c. the art was not originally, or alternatively, posted on twitter at all.I even made sure to pay very close attention not to miss anything, and expanded the search on artists that had similar artstyles, but to no avail. Of course, there's room for error there, but even then, I am not very hopeful on that end...Even though I already scoured boorus and archives before, I might try doing that again. Hopefully a light will come out soon.
Don't know if this helps:https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive-media.palanq.win%2Fwsr%2Fimage%2F1713%2F21%2F1713218454806.jpg
>>1457268already checked yandex, rechecked with your link just in case, and these results are, unfortunately, unsourced reposts, none of which mention the artist name, and some being of lower quality.Thank you though.
update: I've scrolled through 2015-2018 on the chara_(undertale) tag on: danbooru, gelbooru, sankakucomplex, furaffinitynot in either of those. posting this here to prevent anyone from doing the same.the search continues.
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